A lovely afternoon along the blue route with Innes Manders from Catkin Ecology (and 25 others) talking about wild flowers, grasses and ferns. A great conversation with everyone contributing lots of knowledge about common names, Latin names, uses of flowers … it’s great how descriptive a lot of the names are. Thank you Innes, and everyone who came along
Autumn Activities Meet us at Tayvallich Village Shop for: Wed 9 Sep, 10am: Old road ditch digging fun ... help make the old road path less puddly. Thu 17 Sep, 11.30am: Social walk, talk, and drink hot choc! Thu 24 Sep, 1pm: Red and Blue route path maintenance and fun!...
Some photos from last week’s marsh fritillary web count on community land. On the first photo, the top arrow points to the caterpillars; the bottom arrow points to one of the webs in the cluster. Other photos show: male keeled skimmer; female common hawker;...
A fun afternoon at the Community Garden and Orchard (the sun came out!) … great to see the fruit trees coming along and the veg growing … and which ones won prizes at the Tayvallich Flower Show last week. And good to have a chat about plans for the coming months....
Tayvallich Initiative had a table at the Gala Day on Saturday — and a competition to see who could pull the most Himalayan balsam stems in a minute! Plus there were photos and updates on the Community Rangers’ work on walks, benches and skunk cabbage removal.